250GB drive 232GB after format

[racefan]

Help me a bit here I just installed and formated my 250GB Hatachi drive with 100 Mb C DRIVE and the rest D drive. Do I want to format it as a fat 32 or NTFS. I know NTFS supports files over 4GB which will come in handy with VHS to DVD conversion as I have hit the 4GB barrier the other day.


Which is better to use

Also my 250 drive after partition of 100GB (93.7GB AFTER FORMAT) is only showing 232mb total between the C and D drive What is up with this.

 

[ayman]

NTFS for Windows XP!

 

[DaveSimmons]

NTFS.

Drives are sold using GB = 1,000,000,000 instead of the proper 2^30 = 1024 cubed.

 

[racefan]

Thank you guys NTFS it is.


Still need a answer for the 232GB only showing up.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: racefan
Thank you guys NTFS it is.


Still need a answer for the 232GB only showing up.

Drives are sold using GB = 1,000,000,000 instead of the proper 2^30 = 1024 cubed.
As posted above.

So you have 250,000,000,000 bytes on your hard drive.
Which is 232GB, because computers use 1GB = 2^30 bytes = 1GB, not 1,000,000,000 bytes = 1GB

 

[ayman]

I guess windows needs its own space for something, i'm not to sure myself but i know if you take 1,000,000,000 * 250GB and divide it by 1024 3 times then you get 232.8GB which is what your getting.

Dave Simmons should know why

Seems like he knows what he's talking about.

 

[ayman]

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: racefan
Thank you guys NTFS it is.


Still need a answer for the 232GB only showing up.

Drives are sold using GB = 1,000,000,000 instead of the proper 2^30 = 1024 cubed.
As posted above.

So you have 250,000,000,000 bytes on your hard drive.
Which is 232GB, because computers use 1GB = 2^30 bytes = 1GB, not 1,000,000,000 bytes = 1GB

Lonyo i see what your saying. But where do you actually get the numbers 2 and 30 fromt he 2^30. What do those stand for.

So basically it's like saying in computer language they see 1GB as 1024 MB? Is that what you mean?

I guess that's why ram isnt 1000MB, its 1024

-Ayman

 

[Sunner]

Yeah, that's what he's saying.
Remember computers don't use the decimal base 10 system.
1 KB == 2^10 Bytes
1 MB == 2^10 KB == 2^20 Bytes
1 GB == 2^10 MB == 2^20 KB == 2^30 Bytes

And so forth.

Come to think of it, some people thought up a way to separate this, by splitting it into Kilobyte vs Kibibyte, where a Kilobyte would be 1000 Bytes while a Kibibyte would be 1024 Bytes.
The way that goes is Kibibytes, Mibibytes, Gibibytes, etc.
Noone I know gives a crap though, and continues to use the "old" way of saying it, that is, 1 MB == 1024 Kilobytes.

 

[Algere]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
NTFS.

Drives are sold using GB = 1,000,000,000 instead of the proper 2^30 = 1024 cubed.

Do all file systems see it that way (2^30=1024)? I thought not all file systems calculate disk space the same way after format.